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  1. Re:Should I bother? on Being Free is Hard to Do · · Score: 1

    I also write custom software as well, and that's a statement I agree with. Unfortunately I don't have control over the licensing, but there are a few projects I am starting independently where I will, and it will be free software I'm paid to write. :)

    (RMS has said himself that as long as you respect your client's freedom, writing custom software does not go against any principles of free software.)

  2. Re:Next Version of Windows.. on Microsoft Releases AntiSpyware Program · · Score: 1

    If the spyware can get in, the competitors can get it out. At least until the bugs are patched several months down the road.

  3. Re:I spy a new meme on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 5, Funny

    That should be a patent-unencumbered PNG! Where is your sense of decency, comrade? :)

  4. Sigh. on Is Your Development Project a Sinking Ship? · · Score: 1

    Requirements Volatility was #5 on their list. Around where I work it's #1.

    Another day of this client making some _unnecessary_ and nit-picky change and I'll start adding an extra week to my estimates of when it'll be done.

  5. Only example I can think of. on New Vulnerability Affects All Browsers · · Score: 1

    Schrodinger's cat is not dead.

  6. Re:*Limited* Windows CE included! on Photos and Commentary On AMD's PIC · · Score: 1

    If they put linux on there, it would need a larger storage device and technical support.

    Bold-faced lie. There are Linux distributions out there that are designed to run on Flash Media.

    Hell. There's a build of Firefox that's designed to run off of a USB Flash drive.

  7. Set on 2004 Board Games Gift Guide · · Score: 1

    Set, from here.

    A very entertaining pattern-matching game. My girlfriend has never lost a game to anyone.

  8. Re:One may ask, why? on RIP Pentium II, 1997 - 2006 · · Score: 1

    XP Pro ran beautifully for a long time on a P2-350 256MB.

    Of course I had to tweak it a LOT...

  9. Re:blocking Google ads on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 1

    Some people have problems hitting localhost for all those timeouts. You should redirect to 0.0.0.0.

  10. Re:For the uninitiated... on Given Up to Spyware? · · Score: 1

    My record is 1500+. (Not my boxes, of course.)

  11. Re:What a troll! - absolutely not a troll on DaimlerChrysler/SCO Case Winds Down · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a link to scofacts from Groklaw.

    Also, Al has a vested interest in SCO's stock price downfall, because he's shorted it.

    He loses credibility for that but not as much because he states it himself.

  12. What are they installing? on AOL Releases Netscape Beta, Based on Firefox · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Probably the same spyware related crap (Weatherbug, Viewpoint 'Media Player') as AOL instant messenger does...

  13. Re:Yay, a later version! on GPL Revision Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    No, because you don't have to use the later version.

  14. Re:Words to Best Buy: Suck it up on Best Buy: 20% Of Customers Are Wrong · · Score: 1

    I'm from State College, PA.

    The Best Buy there is one of the few stores I won't even browse anymore (a Circuit City's just up Atherton, after all.)

    The prices simply aren't worth it--let alone all the other junk that comes along with it. I think the last thing I bought there was a stick of PC2700.

    I seem to have this air of knowing exactly what I'm looking for, so the salesmonkeys leave me alone most of the time when I do bother to walk through their doors.

  15. Re:SCO had to shut up. IBM was quoting them. on SCO Gives up on Linux Website · · Score: 1

    Take a look at the five-year graph for that stock, because that's definitely more entertaining. ;)

  16. Which BSD? on Study Recommends Mac OS X as Safest OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The study doesn't specify which BSD distribution they used, besides OS X (Darwin). I guess you could say "all of them" but c'mon, you just can't leave out details like that.

  17. Murphy's Law, Long Version? on Probe Crash Due to Misdesigned Deceleration Sensor · · Score: 1

    If there are exactly two ways to do something, and one of them ends in catastrophic failure, someone will do it that way.

    Sounds like the original, where sixteen sensors for testing a g-force experiment were dutifully and methodically glued in place backwards.

    --Benanov

  18. Re:Just because... on Telecom Outages Now a State Secret · · Score: 1

    I don't travel via air because I don't want to be searched, have my belongings combed through, and have to show ID. Terrorists? I'll take my chances. Flagrant Privacy violations? Forget it.

  19. Re:Co-dependency... on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1

    You could also try FreeDOS. If you have a spare machine you can set aside you can run FreeDOS as the only OS (or you could buy a new Dell :) My dumpster-diving friends and I have a few 'compatibility machines' set aside for such tasks that we've pulled out of the trash.

  20. Hmm... on Microsoft Releases FlexWiki as Open Source · · Score: 1
    It is a Microsoft product, from a certain perspective: (From David's weblog)
    As part of this change with FlexWiki, contributors to the project will assign ownership of their contribution to Microsoft and then, as part of the same agreement, we give it all back to them. This is pretty common practice for a bunch of important open source efforts (like the Free Software Foundation which does the same thing). The advantage here is that the project gets a single, clear copyright owner, etc. This is an example of the kind of "better legal environment" that I hope will make companies (even) more comfortable using and extending FlexWiki.
    The argument is that it's similar to what the FSF does. However the FSF does it to defend against patent claims and copyright infringement. What's Microsoft's motivation? Free code, I bet. The suits are going to be all over that one... "That's a great idea! They give it to us here at Microsoft...and then...we give it back to them?!?!"
  21. Old idea, really! on Hikarunix: The Go Distro · · Score: 1

    Remember bootable floppy games? :P Some people have nicknamed them 'booters' http://retrograde.trustno1.org/ is one site.

  22. Re:Dumb on Spam Opt-out Link Triggers Malicious Code Attack · · Score: 5, Informative

    That comment means it was ripped from a proof-of-concept website published a while ago: http://www.mikx.de/scrollbar/ Amazingly shameless. They stole this guy's code, AND they're using it for phishing attacks.

  23. Text to Speech fun! on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    Type the phrase into a text-to-speech encoder. "turkiye" is pronounced "turkey." If you use Text-to-Speech for any length of time (especially in ambiguous english) you end up having to do a LOT of substitutions so that things sound correctly.

  24. LINK POSTS TO 404 REDIRECT on California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    Someone has hijacked that link. http://www.equalccw.com/deandemo.html now redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/ Someone's toyed with your link, my friend.

  25. Anecdotal crap... on Ballmer on Linux · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a lawsuit against MS over SQL server where its customers weren't protected? I can't remember the story. Someone help me out...